Aphrahat and Judaism: The Christian-Jewish Argument in Fourth-Century Iran [Studia Post Biblia, XIX]

Neusner, Jacob. Aphrahat and Judaism: The Christian-Jewish Argument in Fourth-Century Iran [Studia Post Biblia, XIX]. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1971. First edition. Quarto. XIII, [3], 265, [1]pp. Original blue cloth with gold lettering on spine and front cover. Outside of the Babylonian Talmud, Aphrahat (fl. ca. 300-350 A.D.), a Christian monk in Mesopotamia, provides the only substantial literary evidence on the state of Mesopotamian-Babylonian Judaism in Sasanian times. His Demonstrations were given final form by the end of the 4th century, if not earlier, and hence antedate the Babylonian Talmud by a hundred years or more. Jacob Neusner’s translation of Aphrahat proves to be a valuable source for the study of Judaism east of the Euphrates. Binding and interior in overall very good condition. vg. Hardcover. (32174) $75